income inequality News

The fortunes of the world’s richest individuals continued to grow last year thanks to booming stock markets and resurgent property values.

Analysis of Internal Revenue Service data has revealed shocking disparities in income growth among American workers over the past six decades.

Waltham - A new study has revealed that the wealth gap between white and black Americans has nearly tripled since the Reagan years.

Toronto - One year since Occupy Wall Street became one of the leading political movements, the left-leaning Broadbent Institute published a report that highlights income inequality as one of the most important issues facing Canada.

Washington - New figures released by the US Census Bureau on Wednesday reveal that 46.2 million Americans, including 16.1 million children, are poor, and that median household income declined in 2011. Income inequality increased to its highest level in 45 years.

Washington - Here's some good news about teen pregnancy: the teen birth rate in the United States dropped a record nine percent between 2009 and 2010.

Rio De Janeiro - Bank of Canada deputy governor Tiff Macklem delivered a speech to a business audience, in which he argues for public officials to enact policies that would rein in the free market and address income inequalities.